Past And Present

Hello everyone.

As October winds down, I wanted to share

just a few past Fall and Halloween decor

for my newer blogging friends.

For my long timers, hope this post does not 

bore you too much,

for at the end will be a new bit of Halloween. 

Before of our keeping room.

This was an old railroad rack.

 

Keeping room again.

..

One Halloween at the antique store.

An October past CupboardScape.

One more pic of Halloween at our store.

This was years ago.

Now for the new.

If you remember this huge Victorian house

up the river last year did a skeleton graveyard.

This year they added a large skeleton

to the top of the house,

with a rope going all the way down to 

another huge skeleton on the ground.

Then they added more skeletons

to make it look like they were climbing the rope up. 

Other skeletons are hanging all over the house.

Although you cannot see it in the pics Bob took,

also on the roof of the portico, they added

a bistro table with 2 skeletons sitting in chairs 

with what looks to be drinks on the table.

This owner owns a construction company.

He brings in a crane to reach 

all of the levels of the house.

At night it is all lit up, and for Halloween

he has music playing outside.

The lines to get candy are quite long

with kids on the sidewalk both

North and South of the house.

He must give out pretty good candy for those lines.

We know because we drove by it last 

Halloween evening going home.

There is no parking on this road,

so I quickly pulled over for Bob to take

these pics before a cop came by....

which they often do...especially on Halloween.

In other news,

We are finally getting some color changing 

of the leaves in our neck of the woods.

However most of the trees just turned brown.

Yesterday it was 61 degrees and we enjoyed it.

Since I will be hosting Christmas this year,

will be dragging out my bins to start

decorating.

I like to take my time, 

so decided to start this weekend.

Halloween evening we will be going to 

one of our fav seafood restaurants for dinner.

This place is s packed all year,

therefore we go once yearly.

Bob's cousin and his wife will be joining us.

I can taste my lobster ravioli now.

Plus we always get a smoked salmon

dip appetizer with toasted bread. 

Well off to work.

Past & Present Blessings To All!

Janice

Friday Finish

Hello friends!

I have two finishes to share today.

No FFO's

Fully Finished Objects.

Oh well.

Always next year.

 

The first one was a freebie by La D Da.

Smell My Feet

Her stockings were done in light and dark purple,

and orange.

Trick or Treat was done in Jack~O~Lantern.

I will stitch this into a pillow for next year.

Quaker Sampler is my last finish.

I used three different shades of gray.

Hard to tell here though.

Again I want to make this into a pillow.

In other news,

Mikayla has been accepted

 into 6 colleges thus far.

My granddaughter is a smartie.

Right now she will be graduating high school

with seven honor cords.

I only had one.

Am so proud of her.

She wants to major in Forensics.

This weekend will be pricing new Christmas

items for the store.

We have been there most every night

adding items in.

I also had 7 boxes of candles to check in.

Right now we have 74 different scents.

Something for everyone.

What are your weekend plans?

Another Friday Blessings To All!

Janice

Center Stage Right

 

Or is it stage left?

Any hoot,

more of my Autumn muted color tour.

So lets go into the hall.

We have a very wide and open hall.

It is nice and not so claustrophobic.

Again brought out more of the blues, grays and browns.

End of the hall area.

Drysink by the front door.

I made all of these pumpkins.

Even added just some brown to my horse.

I did forget to replace my red pillows

for the gray ones I have.

Shame on me.

Oh well.. pretend they are gray. LOL

Tundra is sleeping over here right now,

or I would change them out and re-take a pic.

Heavens to Betsy if I disturb our prince.

I purchased these pumpkins at a shop near us.

I tried to support local when I can.

Well that does it for the Fall tour this year.

Hope you enjoyed it.

In other news,

just got back from my mom's.

My daughter, grands and I took my mom

out for dinner again last night.

Same restaurant we had her party at.

Food was again good as always.

Weather is picture perfect right now.

Yet those of us know Winter is close behind now.

Well off to work on getting some stuff done

around the house here on my day off.

Hope everyone has a great new week.

Stage Right Blessings To All!

Janice

Fall Is Taking Center Stage

Autumn is in full swing here in Michigan.

The days are definitely getting shorter.

The nights are getting colder.

Enough that we turned our furnace on now.

However not much in the way of a Fall color tour.

Maybe I took a cue from Mother Nature

with my decor in this room.

Rather than using yellows and oranges,

I chose gray, blue and browns.

Let's take a peek. 

In fact someone was peeking at me

when I took this pic.

Why are you taking my picture mom?

Right after my second picture he got up and left. LOL

Oh Tundra.

Let's continue.

Blues, gray and brown in my crocks.

More blue and gray.

This years color scheme was more calming to me.

All of the pumpkins were made by my

nephews wife Holly.

I simply love them.

Actually these pumpkins were my inspiration

for the color combo I did in our living room.

A much more un-traditional Autumn look.

They always say having a blue bedroom calms you.

Having blue in my decor here calmed me.

Stay tuned for part 2 of my un-traditional

Autumn decor.

Have you ever thought of doing other colors in

your Fall decorating?

In other news,

driving home the other night from work,

I saw the widest rainbow ever.

I was only a mile away from home driving 

along the river. 

There is no parking along the river road.

In some places the river is right up to the road.

This rainbow was so huge 

every color was vividly noticeable.

I was hoping to get home quick so I could take a pic,

but it was gone once I got home.

Last Saturday my granddaughter Mikayla

had her final homecoming as a senior.

She, her mom and brother missed my mom's

party because of this.

They will be heading to my mom's this Sunday

to take her out to dinner.

I am going to go up as well and spend the evening

once again with my mom. 

Bob has dinner ready so going to go eat.

He usually cooks for me Mon, Tue and Wed,

but is doing it today too!

Hope everyone enjoys their upcoming weekend.

Center Stage Blessings To All!

Janice

Sunday Starts

Hello my friends.

First off,

am hoping all is well with those in Florida.

I could not imagine having that many

tornadoes in one day.

Just horrible with that and the hurricane. 

More may be on the way.

Hurricane season is not over yet.

I wanted to show you a start that Bob

had been working on.

He found some more old doors,

and is making Christmas trees.

The wood around the door tree was some

of the leftover 200 yr old wood 

he still had.

I kept one for myself.

So far he has made 8 of them.

They are already at the store for sale.

I want Bob to put an old nail 

in mine to hang a wreath.

This is my new start.

House on Pear Hill.

Hopefully I can have this stitch

completed by Christmas.

I want to include this in our keeping room,

where I have my un-traditional colors.

My one day start.

 Not sure if I like this mauve pink

in the border.

I may change this out.

In other news,

my SIL survived the hurricane.

She lost power for a day,

but is alright now.

She was spared the damage that most had.

Mom's birthday party was a hit.

Everyone loved the food.

Here was the menu.

Will have to gather all of the pics and do

 a different post on her party.

She was definitely surprised and I am just glad

it is over now.

All the prep work for it was a bit for me.

We ended up with 42 family members attending.

I had invited 60, but knew 7 probably would not

be able to attend because they live all over

the country...which was the case.

My son could not get out of work.

His co-worker would not change days for him...

so he will NEVER do him a favor.

My daughter and kids could not come either.

Mikayla had homecoming yesterday.

She is a senior, so she could not miss that.

They will be going to my mom's next Sunday

to take her out to dinner.

Well have to do laundry now.

Beef cabbage soup will be going into

the crock pot for dinner tonight.

Sunday Blessings To All!

Janice 

 

Whippy Wednesday

Hello friends. 

Today I only have three WIP's to show.

First is my latest stitch for my Heritage wall.

I deleted a few of the rows of alphabets,

because I need to add my parents names.

their wedding date and church name.

I may even omit the two wreaths.

Will see once I get the top corner motifs stitched. 

The last I spoke about this stitch, 

I opted to go back to some of the ghosting.

I stitched back in the yellow, but not the white.

The second row of letters were a pain.

Lots of confetti stitching...

changing up the colors in each letter.

Once I got past that row, the next motif row

and alphabet row went by pretty fast.

Again no letter J's in this pattern.

Its a mighty big stitch too.

Left side

Right side.

The left motif is now finished.

Lots of confetti stitching here too.

This blue and brown border

will now go around the remaining design.

I wont stitch the whole border yet as I need

to make sure I get my parents names in before 

working on the church.

Then the name of the church will go below.

Then the rest of the border below.

Did I confuse you yet? LOL

With this sampler I am stitching out of

my comfort zone.

Am not a fan of pink, green or yellow...

and these colors are definitely in here.

I stitch on this every Saturday and Sunday 

when I am able to.

Next up is Penny Pumpkin.

This was my first day of stitching.

As you cans see I changed up the colors

of the pennys.

Also changed the colors of the berries.

Wanted them to be more like the colors of bittersweet.

then I opted to change the veining of the pumpkin.

Decided on doing mine in orange.

I worked on this for 5 straight evenings.

With my big Halloween project finally finished,

I have more free time each night.

This week working on another Halloween one.

One I want to finish this month if I can.

Last but not least.

Turkey Trot.

Last time I had almost completed 

the final turkey.

I do this one during my lunch break.

Turkey is well done. LOL

Even finished 2 of the 3 flower pots now.

Once again, I did change up the colors.

The pots themselves were 

suppose to be the white acorn color.

With the fabric I chose, they would not

have shown...which is why 

I had to outline the acorns.

Well that does it for what 

I have been working on recently.

I want to start a few more...will see what I choose.

In other news,

another hurricane is coming in.

My SIL is staying put and Bob is worried.

She lives inland but lives in a modular home.

Am told this may be the worst hurricane to hit

Florida in 100 years.

  Please say a wee prayers for everyone 

living in the path of what will be another

destructive hurricane.

Saturday is my mom's surprise birthday party.

We have over 50 family members attending.

Hopefully everyone will enjoy the limited

menu we picked out.

It will be nice visiting with everyone,

since many I have not seen in over 10 years. 

Have a wonderful rest of your week

my friends.

Mid Week Blessings To All!

Janice